"mad cow" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mad cows [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} mad cow (usually uncountable, plural mad cows)
  1. (uncountable, by ellipsis) Mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Diseases Translations (mad cow disease): maladie de la vache folle (French), vache folle (French)
    Sense id: en-mad_cow-en-noun-rOGdv5VZ Disambiguation of Diseases: 51 43 5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 44 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 55 43 2 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 54 43 3 Disambiguation of 'mad cow disease': 56 43 1
  2. (countable) A cow afflicted with mad cow disease. Tags: countable, usually Categories (topical): Diseases
    Sense id: en-mad_cow-en-noun-QMeeEz3j Disambiguation of Diseases: 51 43 5
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mad, cow. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-mad_cow-en-noun-wwlaiV2G
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (cow afflicted with mad cow disease): vache folle (French)
Disambiguation of 'cow afflicted with mad cow disease': 44 54 2

Inflected forms

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